... where near equal with the white facilities. This aggravated the blacks and they finally protested against segregation and their struggle to vote. Booker T. Washington, a former slave from Virginia, and William E. B. Du Bois, a brilliant scholar, were two leaders with different views. Washington focused more on improving African American education and industrial skill rather than the injustices they have suffered while ... Du Bois focused more on demanding equality and standing up to discrimination. The NAACP was an organization that was against the discrimination and segregation of Afri...

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... not work shall be deemed and considered vagrants and upon conviction, they shall be fined and imprisoned or sentenced to work on the public works, for not longer than a year (Du Bois 471). There were ways to undermine the 14th and 15th Amendments as well, for example requiring blacks to pass difficult exams to vote. These new Jim Crow laws further enforced ... ...

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